Rep. Adelita Grijalva visited with a detained asylum seeker with dementia, age 79, after learning about her from an Arizona Daily Star investigation.
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While seldom-used Sidi Gueye and Evan Nelson played roles in Arizona's 75-68 win over BYU on Wednesday, regulars Anthony Dell'Orso and Ivan Kharchenkov provided more offense than usual.
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The Wildcats get a test from the Cougars in a 75-68 win in their second match-up of their Big 12 schedule, February 18, 2026, Tucson, Ariz.
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For one game at least, the Arizona Wildcats survived being unusually shorthanded.Â
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The Pride of Arizona picked up some size Wednesday, and it was hard not to notice.
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PHOENIX — A sharply divided House committee advanced a measure that would allow large cities and towns to exempt designated historic neighborhoods from a 2024 law requiring them to permit "middle housing'' such as duplexes and townhomes within a mile of their city centers.
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The First Christian Church hosted an Ashes-to-Go drive-thru event in the parking lot on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. The message of the day is to remind people that humans are imperfect and that God's grace and forgiveness is always offered. Ash Wednesday signifies the start of Lent.
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For Star subscribers: From the search for Nancy Guthrie to official state business, Arizona’s public agencies still rely on the platform formerly known as Twitter. Columnist Tim Steller argues that with the rise of AI-generated misinformation and "divisive" leadership, it's time for a strategic move to safer alternatives.
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The Wildcats get a test from the Cougars in a 75-68 win in their second match-up of their Big 12 schedule, February 18, 2026, Tucson, Ariz.
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The First Christian Church hosted an Ashes-to-Go drive-thru event in the parking lot on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. The message of the day is to remind people that humans are imperfect and that God's grace and forgiveness is always offered. Ash Wednesday signifies the start of Lent.
The First Christian Church hosted an Ashes-to-Go drive-thru event in the parking lot on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. The message of the day is to remind people that humans are imperfect and that God's grace and forgiveness is always offered. Ash Wednesday signifies the start of Lent.
Federal officials are moving forward with a "drastic" backup plan after seven states missed a critical deadline to save the depleted Colorado River. The proposal would hit the Central Arizona Project the hardest, forcing a historic shift in how Tucson and Phoenix manage their long-term drinking supplies.
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The Wildcats get a test from the Cougars in a 75-68 win in their second match-up of their Big 12 schedule, February 18, 2026, Tucson, Ariz.
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While seldom-used Sidi Gueye and Evan Nelson played roles in Arizona's 75-68 win over BYU on Wednesday, regulars Anthony Dell'Orso and Ivan Kharchenkov provided more offense than usual.
For one game at least, the Arizona Wildcats survived being unusually shorthanded.Â
The Pride of Arizona picked up some size Wednesday, and it was hard not to notice.
Boban Marjanovic (you might notice him in upper right) finishes it off with his triangle play for the Arizona band before the Wildcats hosted BYU on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026 at McKale Center.Â
🎧 Hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada discuss how repeated disappointment can calcify into distrust, and why that posture quietly erodes relationships, institutions and personal purpose.
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LOS ANGELES — Finalists and honorees for the 46th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Wednesday. Writer-curator Ekow Eshun is among the biography finalists for "The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them," which parses Black masculinity as embodied by various civil rights activists, philosophers and other visionaries. Contenders in the fiction categories ...
Tubi may not have the same name recognition as Netflix or Hulu, but the streamer continues to offer original content, with several recent programs targeting younger viewers.
When young adult author Courtney Summers got the rights back to her backlisted titles in 2024, she initially wasn't sure what to do with them. Summers' novels, the bulk of which enjoyed peak popularity in the 2010s, had by then faded into the periphery — despite a film adaptation of her 2012 zombie thriller "This Is Not a Test," which is slated to be released in theaters Feb. 20. But the ...
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